Breakdown mill

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Breakdown mill

Breakdown mill

Breakdown mill

Location and history
Pannenmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Breakdown mill
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '0 "  N , 6 ° 13' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '0 "  N , 6 ° 13' 49"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
District of Viersen
Niederkrüchten
Waters Schwalm
Built First mentioned in 1655
Shut down 1960 cessation of milling operations
technology
use Oil and grain mill
Grinder 2 grinding courses 2 oil presses
drive Watermill
water wheel 2 pieces undershot

The breakdown mill in Niederkrüchten was a water mill with at times two undershot water wheels .

geography

The Pannenmühle is located on the middle course of the Schwalm at Kreisstraße 29 in the community of Niederkrüchten in the Viersen district . There was a pond in front of the mill . Above the Pannenmühle is the Lüttelforster Mühle , below the Radermühle. The water level is 47 m above sea level.

history

The Pannenmühle looks back on more than 350 years of history and is mentioned for the first time as an oil mill in 1655. The mill was on the left side of the Schwalm, so at that time it was at home in the Geldern area. Despite this location, the miller had to pay Jülich twelve Albus (coin) and two pounds of yellow wax because he used half the electricity, i.e. also Jülich's drive water. This is how it can be read in the Brüggen rentier's inventory book from 1725/26. In addition, there was a border crossing here at the mill , and a customs house used to be in the eastern wing from the 17th century . The small building was called "et Spanische Hüske". Since 1543 this part of Geldern belonged to the empire of Charles V , in which the sun never set.

The mill seems to have got its name from the Low German word for roof tiles “Pannen”, which were produced here and later made the pottery industry famous in neighboring Bruges .

In 1847 the mill was expanded and now had four wedge presses , two pan mills and an agitator . It had two undershot water wheels , and in 1873 two more grinding aisles for rye and wheat were installed. In 1882 Friedrich August Gotzes bought the mill for 16,000 thalers . At the beginning of 1900 the change to a restaurant with a bathing establishment began . After the Schwalm was relocated in 1926, the mill operated with a diesel engine until 1960.

Monument entry

Former two-story mill building with a crooked hip roof, built around 1841 . The current house used to contain the grinder of the mill. This part is built through on the inside, but still shows the original block frame windows to the north-east. The outer narrow side of the building is dated to 1841 with wall anchors . In the lower part it is made of natural stone . The start of the mill wheel axis can be read off. The timber-framed building has been preserved with all of its studs and chimney block. Fireplaces are located on the first and second floors, but connect to the same train. They are solidly bricked, rectangular with beveled corners and a firing hole.

The buildings are an important testimony to the history of the place and the development of working and production conditions. Conservation and use are therefore in the public interest for ethnological reasons.

(List of monuments No. 10)

gallery

  • former mill building

  • Residential house of the breakdown mill

  • Millstone of a pan mill

  • Breakdown mill inn

  • Restoration of the breakdown mill

  • Old painting of the breakdown mill

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. Krefeld 1998, pages 439-440.
  • Horst Jungbluth, Helmuth Elsner: The Schwalm - valley of the mills. Schwalmtal 1989, pages 45-47.

Web links

Commons : Pannenmühle, Viersen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence